Sonam Wangchuk, yaar—that man's been fighting the system with his own hands, like we do here when the electricity transformer blows and the lineman says "come next week." I was fixing an old Philips radio last night, remembering how my father taught me to wrap the wire three times, not two, because that's what keeps the connection. Bas, that's the point: we have to teach our own, build our own, or the fees just keep climbing.

My neighbour's boy goes to the shakha every morning, gets free tuitions and a meal. But when I asked their local pracharak about a scholarship for my son's engineering fees, he said "we'll see next year, system is slow." I don't know, yaar